The Ottoman origins of modern Iraq political reform, modernization and development in the nineteenth-century Middle East - Ceylan, Ebubekir (I.B. Tauris, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and indexes
As a result of the various reforms of the mid-nineteenth century Tanzimat ('reorganisation') era, Ottoman authority in Iraq was much stronger and better administered by the 1870s, than it had been when the Ottomans imposed direct rule over the region in the 1830s. Drawing upon original source documents, Ebubekir Ceylan provides the first comprehensive study of the Tanzimat reforms in Iraq in the nineteenth century, focusing on aspects of political reform, modernization and development and analyzing both the successes and failures of the reform process. The reforms included administrative and m
List of Maps; List of Tables; List of Photographs; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Studying Arab provincial capitals; From the center to the periphery: Tanzimat centralization, Modernization and Ottomanism; 1. Ottoman Iraq: Geography, People and History; Baghdad: The Eastern Periphery?; Population and the people of Baghdad; The Mamluks in Baghdad; 2. 'Bringing the State Back in': The re-assertion of Ottoman Direct Rule in Iraq; The end of the Jalilis in Mosul; The fall of the Kurdish emirates in northern Iraq; The Rawanduz (Soran) emirate; The Bahdinan emirate